Triple valve surgery: results from a multicenter experience.

Aims: Triple valve surgery (TVS) may still be considered a challenge in cardiac surgery, and is still associated with a not negligible mortality and morbidity. This study analyzed retrospectively patients' data from RERIC (Registro Regionale degli Interventi Cardiochirurgici) registry, to evaluate early and mid-term results of TVS.

Methods: From April 2002 to December 2013, data from n = 44 211 cardiac surgical procedures were collected from six Cardiac Surgery Departments (RERIC).

Outcomes of patients undergoing concomitant mitral and aortic valve surgery: results from an Italian regional cardiac surgery registry.

Objectives: There are limited reliable data on the long-term survival of patients operated upon with double-valve surgery (DVS) in the literature. In this study, in-hospital mortality and 5-year survival were determined and the potential risk factors for increased mortality were identified and discussed.

Methods: This is a report of an observational retrospective study of 1167 patients undergoing concomitant aortic and mitral valve surgery from 2002 to 2011.

Acute aortic dissection: epidemiology and outcomes.

Background: Little epidemiological information on acute aortic dissection (AAD) is available in the literature. The objective of the present study was to determine the incidence and mortality rates of AAD in the general population and to analyze its clinical features.

Methods: Data from the Emilia-Romagna regional database of hospital admissions was analyzed.

Aortic valve replacement: results and predictors of mortality from a contemporary series of 2256 patients.

Objective: The study's objectives were to evaluate results and identify predictors of hospital and mid-term mortality after primary isolated aortic valve replacement; compare early and mid-term survival of patients aged more than 80 years or less than 80 years; and assess the effectiveness of the logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation in predicting the risk for hospital mortality in octogenarians with a logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation greater than 15% who are undergoing aortic valve replacement.

Methods: Data from 2256 patients undergoing primary isolated aortic valve replacement between January 2003 and December 2007 were prospectively collected in a Regional Registry (Regione Emilia Romagna Interventi Cardiochirurgia) and analyzed to estimate hospital and mid-term results.

Results: Overall hospital mortality was 2.